Over the summer I read The Help. The Help is about a college graduate, Skeeter, who wants to be a writer but her mother wants her to be a wife. Skeeter decides to write a book about the maids in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s. She interviews the maids, Minny, Aiblieen and many others.
The main message or theme in The Help is about how one person can change a whole town. This is the theme because once the whole town of Jackson finds out about the book it changes everything. Another message is that everyone can come together no matter what your diffrences are, because the maids and the house wife's have a lot of diffrences but they realized that they can come together.
The characters in the help are Skeeter, Minny, Aiblieen, And Celia. Skeeter is a college grad who is striving to be a writer but her mother doesn't want her to be one. In the beginning of the story she is scared to become a writer because all of her friends are going to be housewife's but by the end she is proud of her work. Minny is a black maid, at the beginning she got fired from her job. She got a job working for Celia Foote, who at first didn't tell her husband that she got a maid but he finds out. Aiblieen is a older maid, who raises Mrs. Leefolts's daughter, Mae Mobley. Celia is the wife of Johnny Foote. Who hires Minny as her maid without her husband approval. Celia begins to change throughout the story with the help of Minny.
This article is about how the author got rejected 60 times before The Help was published.
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